Plan of shooting the protesters on Maidan during the Revolution of Dignity on Maidan, the central square of Kyiv, was developed by the military and security forces of the Russian Federation.

Former Ukrainian Prime-Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk told that after his interrogation at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.

According to him, former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych had a meeting with Vladimir Putin two weeks prior to the Maidan activists’ killings.

After that meeting former interior minister Zakharchenko and former Head of SBU got their instructions to prepare the plan of actions to drive off the Maidan protesters immediately with the help of Russian special services using weapons.